Life in a Dol house BLOG

This Blog began in 2014 as a way to keep in touch with family and friends. Gradually more people wanted to read the Blog and so it went from being a weekly email, to an on-line page.

Over time we used different platforms until in January 2019 when we moved to our own dedicated pages. Past years blogs will be added, but it will take time…


Life in a Dol house is about the daily trials and tribulations, successes and failures and the mundane minutia of modernising an old Croatian farm house and smallholding. This is on a beautiful Adriatic island, and is about our making it productive again.

Each week you are invited to join us in our adventures on a small plot of land in this quiet backwater. Here, where the pace of life is still regulated by the passage of the sun across the sky each day and the season of the year.

Below are our most recent Blogs. Just click on any link to open a new page.

Planting gets underway – 2024/05
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Planting gets underway This week: Finishing the hall floor; The next part of the project; The last cuts; Planting gets underway; We have had another sunny week here in Dol, however with the clear skies at night, temperatures have dropped … Read More

Combing the depths – 2024/04
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Combing the depths This week: Laying the floor continues; Combing the depths; An unstable electric supply; The natural world is awakening; I have had another week working on laying the hardwood floor in the hall. But what is obvious as … Read More

Reversing my tongue – 2024/03
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Reversing my tongue This week: Laying hardwood flooring; Blind nailing; Reversing my tongue; Just plain awful engineering; It’s Saturday again! It really doesn’t seem a week since I was in front of my screens, selecting the photos for last week’s … Read More

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